Rory O'Connor
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Podcast Appearances
Maybe it's just being size 12, you can't get all the boots.
how would you do that every day be a horse I guess you had to you had to add the because it did it looked tough but also it looked it's hard to get the depth perception on it so I think you had to emphasise how hard it was so I can understand why I know he was hunched he was at like 45 degrees the incline was obviously steep it wasn't a day for the vape applies either was he wearing second generation predators or third what do you think
Yeah, well, I guess his achievement was a lifetime ago.
It was a year before my own parents were born that he won that gold medal.
And he used to come every year.
We used to have a great awards night.
Well, you would have gone to it a couple of times, the Indosport Awards.
Sports started the year and the kind of grandees.
It was a great night before Christmas where we didn't sell tables to it.
It was kind of the same group of people plus the nominees every year.
And
Ronnie Delaney I think he was a Hall of Fame winner and they were always invited back and he would always come and I had the pleasure of sitting beside him one year and Ronnie Delaney was a man you know it was
I think humility is one of life's most overrated qualities.
Ronnie Delaney, if you asked him about his achievement and what it was like in Melbourne, he would talk to you for hours and hours about it.
He was only too happy to talk about it.
And I don't mean this in any way snide way.
He was proud of the fact that he won a gold medal for Ireland.
He was happy to dine out on it.
He was happy to talk about it.
I've listened to him being interviewed about it as well.